A Waterloo Region Record blog on the Kitchener Rangers

October 21, 2014

Kitchener 4, Guelph 1

Time for a rematch.

Kitchener took out Guelph 6-5 earlier this month at the Aud to break an eight-game losing skid against the Storm.

This time, the Rangers will no doubt see goalie Justin Nichols for the entire game. The ace relieved Matt Mancina last time and didn't allow a goal for a period and change. Nichols owned the Rangers last year.

He'll have forward Justin Bailey - he of eight goals in eight games - to contend with. Got some front page love today with my piece on Bailey's hot start, which is catching the eyes of the GM for the U.S. world junior squad.

Keep up this pace and Bailey will be gone for much of December for the tourney,which is running in Toronto and Montreal beginning Boxing Day.

- Guelph G Matt Mancina, who was sent home for the weekend, is still not with the team.

- Guelph D Ben Harpur is out for 2-3 weeks with a knee injury.

- Cambridge native - and former Ranger - D Cory Genovese, of the Erie Otters, was suspended for four games by the OHL for checking from behind.

- The Rangers will not call up anyone to replace recently released F Scott Teskey. Instead, the team will rely on prospects playing for the Kitchener Dutchmen for emergency call-ups, at least for the time being.

- Kitchener didn't have to deal with Guelph's best player for much of the first period after F Robby Fabbri was called for 17 minutes in penalties.

- Guelph went 8-0 against Kitchener last year but is 0-2 so far this time around.

- Import Pius Suter went down hard with an apparent knee injury late in the third period and had to be helped off the ice. He returned for the ensuing PP and was greeted with boos from the crowd.

- Two more PP goals for the Rangers means their extra man unit is ranked fourth in the OHL.

- Justin Bailey extended his point scoring streak to nine games. That puts him tied with Erie's Connor McDavid and Dylan Strome and Plymouth's Matt Mistele for the longest active stretch in the OHL this season.

- Theatrics aside, Suter was all over Kitchener, had a missed penalty shot and was sneaking behind the blue line all game.

- No surprise that depth lines helped the Rangers win. Guelph is looking young and thin on lines three and four.

- Kitchener goalie Matt Greenfield's save percentage saw a bump after allowing just one goal. That's two games straight that Rangers keepers have allowed one marker in regulation.

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Kitchener 4, Guelph 1

Time for a rematch.

Kitchener took out Guelph 6-5 earlier this month at the Aud to break an eight-game losing skid against the Storm.

This time, the Rangers will no doubt see goalie Justin Nichols for the entire game. The ace relieved Matt Mancina last time and didn't allow a goal for a period and change. Nichols owned the Rangers last year.

He'll have forward Justin Bailey - he of eight goals in eight games - to contend with. Got some front page love today with my piece on Bailey's hot start, which is catching the eyes of the GM for the U.S. world junior squad.

Keep up this pace and Bailey will be gone for much of December for the tourney,which is running in Toronto and Montreal beginning Boxing Day.

- Guelph G Matt Mancina, who was sent home for the weekend, is still not with the team.

- Guelph D Ben Harpur is out for 2-3 weeks with a knee injury.

- Cambridge native - and former Ranger - D Cory Genovese, of the Erie Otters, was suspended for four games by the OHL for checking from behind.

- The Rangers will not call up anyone to replace recently released F Scott Teskey. Instead, the team will rely on prospects playing for the Kitchener Dutchmen for emergency call-ups, at least for the time being.

- Kitchener didn't have to deal with Guelph's best player for much of the first period after F Robby Fabbri was called for 17 minutes in penalties.

- Guelph went 8-0 against Kitchener last year but is 0-2 so far this time around.

- Import Pius Suter went down hard with an apparent knee injury late in the third period and had to be helped off the ice. He returned for the ensuing PP and was greeted with boos from the crowd.

- Two more PP goals for the Rangers means their extra man unit is ranked fourth in the OHL.

- Justin Bailey extended his point scoring streak to nine games. That puts him tied with Erie's Connor McDavid and Dylan Strome and Plymouth's Matt Mistele for the longest active stretch in the OHL this season.

- Theatrics aside, Suter was all over Kitchener, had a missed penalty shot and was sneaking behind the blue line all game.

- No surprise that depth lines helped the Rangers win. Guelph is looking young and thin on lines three and four.

- Kitchener goalie Matt Greenfield's save percentage saw a bump after allowing just one goal. That's two games straight that Rangers keepers have allowed one marker in regulation.